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	<title>North Shore Libraries: New Releases</title>
	<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/</link>
	<description>Summary of new titles available at North Shore Libraries.</description>
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		The Wizard of Oz [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21674942</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Musical fantasy tale about a little Kansas girl named Dorothy who visits the magical land of Oz....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:49 GMT</pubDate>
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		The wild parrots of Telegraph Hill [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21739614</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Follow the ups and downs of a flock of wild urban parrots within the green niches of San Francisco. Along the way meet unforgettable characters like Picasso and Sophie, the inseparable parrot lovers, and Connor, the lovable outcast of the flock....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:48 GMT</pubDate>
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		Warm springs [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21845177</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			The inspiring true story about Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, who seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:47 GMT</pubDate>
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		Waterfowl and wetlands [DVD videorecording] : a New Zealand odyssey - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21812901</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Wetlands are too often seen as uninviting patches of boggy wasteland. In fact, they are amongst the most productive environments on our planet and they support more species of birds than any other habitat of comparable size. In New Zealand, the wetlands are home to some of the rarest waterfowl in the world as well as large numbers of common introduced species--Container label....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:47 GMT</pubDate>
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		Warbirds over Wanaka 2006 [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21919434</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Features the most spectacular displays from the world famous airshow including the last ever performance of the amazing Breitling Fighters as well as the breath-taking manoeuvres of aerobatics champion Jurgis Kairys....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:46 GMT</pubDate>
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		Valiant [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21767270</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Valiant and his feathered friends take to the sky as they work their way into the Royal Air Force during World War II.  Together this rag-tag squadron of carrier pigeons engages in aerial adventures at a spitfire pace. From the first bumbling day of basic training through the final feather-raising mission, the flock of friends swoop their way toward victory. Against the odds and an evil German falcon, Valiant is called upon for a very important assignment....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:45 GMT</pubDate>
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		Two cars, one night [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21391671</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			While waiting for their parents in the carpark of a rural pub, Romeo, 9 and Polly, 12 learn that love can be found in the most unlikely of places....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:44 GMT</pubDate>
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		Triumph of the will [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21666933</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			This film, commissioned by Adolf Hitler to record the 1934 Nazi party rally in Nuremberg, is the most powerful piece of propaganda ever produced. Included are many scenes of gatherings, marches, and parades. The viewer will also hear speeches given by Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, and Hess as well as samples of monumental architecture designed by Albert Speer....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:43 GMT</pubDate>
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		Turama [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21896525</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			A celebration of Cook Islands culture through authentic chants, legends, songs and pulsating drum beats performed by the TaÂ®akoka Dance Troupe....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:43 GMT</pubDate>
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		Tractor Tom. The new scarecrow &amp; other stories [DVD videorecording]. - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21808375</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Tractor Tom lives on Springhill Farm with Farmer Fi, Matt the farmhand and all of Tom's fantastic friends....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:42 GMT</pubDate>
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		Tanglewoods' secret [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21893019</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Philip and Ruth, 10 and 8, are staying with their rather strict Aunt Margaret in the south of England while their parents are overseas during the late 1940's. While building a secret hideout in the woods, the children meet Terry, a gypsy boy who shares the secrets of the forest with them. Later, when Terry falls from a tree and suffers a long illness, Philip and Ruth do all they can to help him. Eventually he dies, and when Ruth asks many challenging questions about death, she hears a beautiful parable abou...
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:41 GMT</pubDate>
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		Something to sing about [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21892994</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Love changes people in this music-fueled drama that will have you singing, smiling, and searching your heart.  Tommy wants to get off the streets that have already trapped his buddy, G. Smooth.  But Tommy can't catch a break until his voice captures the heart of Memaw.  The spunky old saint's loving friendship paves the way for redemption ... and a few growing pains--Container....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:40 GMT</pubDate>
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		Sometimes in April [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21845165</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Based on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, where over the course of 100 days an estimated 800,000 people were killed in a terrifying purge by Hutu nationalists against their Tutsi countrymen....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:40 GMT</pubDate>
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		Shadowlands [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b19830117</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			A dramatized biography of C.S. Lewis, the famous writer and professor, who experiences love and heartache for the first time when he meets a divorced New Yorker....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:39 GMT</pubDate>
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		Pom Poko [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21717138</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			A community of magical shapeshifting raccoons desperately struggle to prevent their forest home from being destroyed by urban development....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:33 GMT</pubDate>
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		Packets to Puketitiri [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21918855</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Features a commemorative run of seven restored traction engines following the original route that Dixie Flyer used to take when hauling packets of timber from the mills at Puketitiri to Port Ahuriri in Napier....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:32 GMT</pubDate>
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		'Planet of the deaf' [DVD videorecording] : New Zealand 2nd deaf short film competition, 2005. - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21669843</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			12 short films presented at the 2nd New Zealand deaf short film competition in Christchurch, 17th September 2005....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:32 GMT</pubDate>
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		P * U * L * S * E [DVD videorecording]. - Floyd Pink		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21894267</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Concert film of a 1994 performance by the rock group Pink Floyd in London. Intermixes footage of the band's playing with laser light show and strong video imagery....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:31 GMT</pubDate>
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		One flew over the cuckoo's nest [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b20167738</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Tells the adventures of a free-spirited mental ward inmate whose rebelliousness pits him against the repressive head nurse, and whose charm wins him the loyalty of his fellow inmates....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:30 GMT</pubDate>
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		Oopsadazee + Keep on dancing [DVD videorecording] - Dooleys Hooley		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21807978</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			It is time for the Hooley Dooleys to visit Russell and Tickle who live in Oopsadazee and you are all invited! Then, you are invited to join them all for a fun filled time of songs and dancing....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:30 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Night on earth [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21866727</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Five taxi drivers in LA, New York, Paris, Rome and Finland have very different nights....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:29 GMT</pubDate>
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		North country [DVD videorecording]. - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21840003</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Josey Aimes needs a job and goes to work at a Minnesota steel mine after splitting with her violent husband. But the job proves to be almost as harrowing as her marriage. The male miners are resentful of women taking their jobs, so the men verbally abuse and play humiliating pranks on the female miners. After being physically assaulted by a coworker, Josey tries to fight against the harassment, but none of the other women will join her case for fear that things will only get worse. A fictionalized account o...
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:29 GMT</pubDate>
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		New Zealand transport memories [DVD] - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b2191946x</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			This collection presents a visual record of the means and methods that New Zealanders have used to transport themselves and their property from one place to another - whether by land, sea or air - as recorded on newsreels, publicity films, and by amateur cameramen during the 20thj century....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:28 GMT</pubDate>
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		The new Oceania [DVD videorecording] : Albert Wendt, writer. - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21928587</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Traces the life and career of Albert Wendt, Samoan-born novelist, poet and dramatists, with vivid dramatisations of his work. Also documents the current explosion of creative activity by Pacific artists....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:27 GMT</pubDate>
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		The New Zealand railways story [DVD] - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21919495</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Commentary, photographs and archival film footage tell the story of the New Zealand railway system from its beginnings to the present day....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:27 GMT</pubDate>
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		A month of Sundays [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21919586</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Charlie McCabe, a small town baseball announcer who rebels against being placed in a retirement home following a mild stroke.  To fulfill the promise he made to his late wife, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey to find his estranged son.  His beloved granddaughter Biddy insists on accompanying him on the journey of a lifetime, as family secrets are revealed, and old wounds healed....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:26 GMT</pubDate>
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		My neighbors the Yamadas [DVD videorecording]. - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21717382</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Join in the adventures of the quirky Yamada family - from the hilarious to the touching - brilliantly presented in a unique, visually striking comic strip style....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:26 GMT</pubDate>
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		Me and you and everyone we know [DVD videorecording]. - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21840040</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			A lonely shoe salesman and an eccentric performance artist struggle to connect in this unique take on contemporary life....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:25 GMT</pubDate>
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		Mama Heidi [DVD videorecording] : the heroic story of Heidi &amp; Rolland Baker. - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21892957</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			After hearing about the conditions in Mozambique, Heidi and Rolland Baker decided to go there and work with the poorest of the poor. They made a difference by adopting a dilapidated orphanage. This documentary shows how Heidi and Rolland are a powerful inspiration for many in Mozambique, Africa and around the world....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:24 GMT</pubDate>
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		March of the penguins [DVD videorecording]. - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21856199</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate and start a family. This courtship will begin with a long journey - a journey that will take them hundreds of miles across the continent by foot, one by one in a single file. They will endure freezing temperatures, in brittle, icy winds and through deep, treacherous waters. They will risk starvation and attack by dangerous predators, under the harshest conditions on earth, all to find true love....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:24 GMT</pubDate>
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		Luther [DVD videorecording] : one man had a vision that changed the world. - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21566793</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Regional princes and the powerful Catholic Church wield a fast, firm and merciless grip over 16th-century Germany. But when Martin Luther issues a shocking challenge to their authority, the people declare him their new leader - and hero. Even when threatened with violent death, Luther refused to back down, sparking a bloody religious revolution that shakes the entire continent to its core....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:23 GMT</pubDate>
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		The Lion King II [DVD videorecording] : Simba's pride. - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b2016905x</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Kiara, Simba's playful headstrong daughter and heir to the Pride Lands, is on the prowl for adventure. Escaping her bumbling baby-sitters Timon and Pumbaa, Kiara runs off to the Outlands, which are strictly off limits. There she meets the mischievous Kovu - a young cub chosen to walk in Scar's paw prints. The rift between the Outlanders and Simba's pride deepens as Kiara and Kovu's feelings for each other grow. But will love find a way to bring their very different worlds together as one....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:22 GMT</pubDate>
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		Little fish [DVD videorecording]. - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21744129</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Set in in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, former heroin addict Tracy Heart is trying to escape her past. After four years of treading water and trying to rebuild her relationship with her mother, Janelle, she has set herself the dream of owning her own business....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:22 GMT</pubDate>
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		The lion king 3 [DVD videorecording] : Hakuna Matata. - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b20174263</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			In this all-new comedy-adventure, Timon and Pumbaa reveal where they came from, when they met and how they helped Simba save the Serengeti....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:21 GMT</pubDate>
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		Lay it down [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21892866</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Lay it down is an explosive drama set against the world of illegal street racing. It is a powerful ground-breaking evangelistic film, Its compelling delivery and heart-pounding action make it a must see for young and old alike....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:20 GMT</pubDate>
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		The land has eyes [DVD videorecording] = Pear ta ma 'on maf - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21873422</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			The Land Has Eyes is a narrative drama about Viki, (introducing Sapeta Taito) a young South Pacific Islander who redeems her family's name by exposing the secrets of her island's most powerful and important people. Shamed by her village for being poor and the daughter of a wrongly convicted thief, Viki is inspired and haunted by the island's mythical áş?arrior woman' (Rena Owen, Once Were Warriors). The lush tropical beauty of Rotuma (part of Fiji) contrasts with the stifling conformity of her island's cult...
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:19 GMT</pubDate>
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		Just in time for Christmas [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21658389</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Grandpa Jim is late for a special Christmas program in Missouri because his truck breaksdown. Fortunately he is able to persuade a policeman to get him there where he has a wonderful night of music and fun. The real meaning of Christmas becomes apparent....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:18 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		If these walls could talk [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21919549</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			In this trilogy, different women face different social and political climates in choosing what to do about an unplanned pregnancy. In 1952, a recently widowed nurse (Demi Moore) must decide whether to go through with an illegal abortion. In 1974, a mother of four (Sissy Spacek) struggles to raise a family and have a career shortly after abortion was legalized. In 1996, a college student (Anne Heche) decides on getting an abortion during a climate of violence (doctor played by Cher). The stories span over 40...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:17 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		The hiding place [DVD videorecording]. - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21703553</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Traces the life of Corrie Ten Boom, from the quiet years before World War II, to her work with the underground in helping to save the lives of countless Jewish families and her eventual arrest and imprisonment in one of Nazi Germany's most dreaded concentration camps.....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:16 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Gulf Harbour outdoors. Hunting [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21793116</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Shows top action from the TCV show - hunting stags in The Roar in South Westland and the Central North Island; hunting whitetail on Stewart Island; rusa in New Caledonia; Canada geese, wild pigeons, wallabies and rabbits. Includes extra shooting tips....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:15 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Gunpowder, treason &amp; plot [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21664699</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			McGovern dramatises the story of Mary, Queen of Scots' short-lived reign and the battles she has to fight with both her Protestant subjects and the English Queen, Elizabeth 1st. She conspires with the Earl of Bothwell to assassinate her miscreant husband Lord Darnley, after which she marries Bothwell. The story continues with her son James VI of Scotland (who, on Elizabeth's death, became James I of England), and the plot against his reign masterminded by the influential Catholic Robert Catesby - a plot pla...
		]]>
		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:15 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		Great festivals [DVD videorecording]. - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21767786</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Our traveller journeys to many parts of the globe enjoying various festivals at different times of the year....
		]]>
		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:14 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		The gospel live [DVD videorecording] : let the music move you - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b2190554x</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Hosted by Anthony Anderson this concert features live, soul-stirring performances by gospel superstars Mary Mary, Kelly Price, and more. Also included are interviews with celebrities including CeCe Winans and the cast of The Gospel movie....
		]]>
		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:13 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		From the chronicles of Narnia [DVD videorecording] : the lion, the witch and the wardrobe. - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b2162737x</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a lion messiah....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:12 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		Pilot guide to Brazil [DVD videorecording]. - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b20365688</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Traveller Ian Wright visits the historic North East of Brazil and follows the mighty Amazon, the world's longest river, from Salvador to the delta.. he then goes to Rio de Janeiro, a lively melting pot of Portuguese settlers and African slaves, the home of Samba, soccer, and carnival capital of the world....
		]]>
		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:03 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		Common thread [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21744014</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			When Claire learns that she is five months pregnant at the age of 17, she decides to give birth anonymously. She finds refuge with Madame Melikian, an embroiderer for haute couture designers. And, day by day, stitch by stitch, as Claire's belly grows rounder, the threads of embroidery create a filial bond between them. When fate brings her together with a famous designer, will this help Claire's dreams as well as her secret?...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:03 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		Brainy baby. Right brain [DVD videorecording] : inspires creative thinking. - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b20259402</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Helps stimulate cognitive development in your child. This video combines animation with real life objects to stimulate skills in logic, patterns, language, sequence and details analysis, for babies to toddler...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:02 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		Brainy baby. ABC's [DVD videorecording] : introducing the alphabet. - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21565235</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Introduces your child to the alphabet, upper and lower case letters, and multiple letter sounds....
		]]>
		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:01 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		Brainy baby. Animals [DVD videorecording]   : apes to zebras - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b20271207</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Take a toe-tapping visit to Old MacDonald's farm....
		]]>
		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:01 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		Brainy baby. 123's [DVD videorecording] : introducing numbers 1 to 20. - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b20425508</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Brightly coloured objects help develop cognitive skills and spatial reasoning....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		A Bing Crosby Christmas [DVD videorecording]. - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21607606</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Bing's wife Kathryn and his good friend Gene Kelly host this tribute to the man whose voice came to symbolise the warmth and hope of the season in this celebration of his annual Christmas specials, featuring a compilation of scenes from original programs from 1962 to 1977....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:55:59 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		Barney. Beach party [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21808363</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Barney teaches children how to keep sun safe at the beach while they have lots of fun....
		]]>
		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:55:58 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		Pilot guide to best treks [DVD videorecording]. - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b20366759</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Ian Wright and his fellow travellers take you to incredible trekking destinations across some of the harshest and remotest places on earth - across every continet - from Asia to the Artic, Australia to Africa...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:55:58 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		The Barbie diaries [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21767518</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			A Barbie movie filled with friendship and magic, super cool music, stylish fashions, and romance....
		]]>
		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:55:57 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		Baby Noah [DVD videorecording] : animal expedition. - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21676689</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Takes babies and toddlers on a fun and interactive voyage around the globe. Little ones will meet animals two by two from the rain forest and tropics, the outback, the polar region and more....
		]]>
		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:55:56 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		The Adventures of Massey Ferguson. Vol. 1 [DVD videorecording]. - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21711070</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			This gentle ramble through rural New Zealand countryside centres around Ferguson farm, which is home to the little red tractor called Massey as well as a fun loving family of vehicles which include: Beaut the ute, Max Tractor, Gracie the 4WD farm bike, and Mrs Milk (the milk tanker of course!)....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:55:55 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		48hours 2005 [DVD videorecording] : New Zealand's largest film making competition. - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21538098</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			The shorts contained on these discs were made in a single weekend in 2005. Over 6000 movie maniacs competed in 270 teams throughhout New Zealand. The teams had no idea what genre (horror, thriller, action, etc.) they would draw at the start of the weekend. Some teams rose to the occasion and others crashed and burned. Here is a selection of the ones that survived....
		]]>
		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:55:54 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		The 39 steps [DVD videorecording] - John Buchan		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b20470721</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			In 1914 with Europe on the brink of war, a young engineer from South Africa is involved in international intrigue by a British secret agent with information on a Prussian plot for assassination. When the agent is killed and his notes entrusted to the engineer, he is pursued across Britain and Scotland by the Prussians and the police who think he killed the agent. It's left to him to decipher the meaning of the thirty nine steps....
		]]>
		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:55:53 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		Sesame Street. The best of Ernie and Bert [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21808338</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Bert and Ernie, the classic comedy duo from Sesame Street, are seen here in some of their most delightful and cherished scenes....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:48:28 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		Sesame Street. Elmo visits the firehouse [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21808351</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			When a fire breaks out on Sesame Street, Elmo watches as the firemen put it out, but the experience has given Elmo quite a fright. This calls for a visit to the local firehouse, where Elmo learns all about fire protection, how firefighters do their job and he even gets a slide down a fire pole....
		]]>
		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:48:27 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		Sedition [DVD videorecording] : the suppression of dissent in World War II New Zealand - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21884158</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Sedition tells the stories of New Zealanders who stuck to their passionate anti-war commitment through World War II. Incorporating invaluable interview material filmed in 1990 with pacifists and conscientious objectors, newsreel footage and radio recordings from the period, and commentary by historians and political scientists, Sedition is a sobering account of the lenghts the state went to in an effort to silence those who repudiated war as an instrument of policy.--Container...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:48:26 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		Second chances [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21892970</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Based on a true story, Second Chances is the uplifting tale of a little girl's physical and emotional reawakening after a car crash....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:48:25 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		Puzzle Inc. Vol. 2 [DVD videorecording]. - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21807759</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			From the popular TV2 series, this is the second of two volumes featuring a bunch of colourful and loveable shapes, full of life, and packed with personality. Circles, squares, triangles, rectangles and stars, energetically skipping, dancing, tumbling and solving problems while introducing our younger viewers to the basics of shape, colour, maths, physics, and creativity....
		]]>
		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:48:24 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		The Robe [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21658511</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			A Roman tribune, Marcellus Gallio, supervises the crucifixion of three men in Jerusalem. The time is 33 A.D.  He wins a robe, the only possession of one of the three, in a dice game, but is greatly affected by the words of the dying man and becomes half mad with fear and guilt.  A lavish epic of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ....
		]]>
		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:48:24 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		Puzzle Inc. Vol. 1 [DVD videorecording]. - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21716626</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			From the popular TV2 series, this is the first of two volumes featuring a bunch of colourful and loveable shapes, full of life, and packed with personality. Circles, squares, triangles, rectangles and stars, energetically skipping, dancing, tumbling and solving problems while introducing our younger viewers to the basics of shape, colour, maths, physics, and creativity....
		]]>
		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:48:23 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		Fireman Sam. Fun run [DVD videorecording]. - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21807954</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Another beautiful day in Pontypandy and another set of adventures for Fireman Sam and his team....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		First Bible stories [DVD videorecording] : from the Old &amp; New Testaments - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21658225</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Presents an animated programme of simply retold Bible stories from both the Old and New Testaments, from the Garden of Eden to the journeys of Paul....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		The Penny Whiting sailing DVD [DVD videorecording] - Penny Whiting		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21560365</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Penny Whiting presents a step-by-step guide to the basics of sailing on board Endless summer....
		]]>
		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:47:59 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		Fairy magic [DVD videorecording] - (Musical Fairies		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21807929</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Fairy Magic is a musical adventure starring two beautiful fairies, Harmony &amp; Rhapsody who live in Fairyland at the bottom of the garden. There is always excitement around Harmony and Rhapsody and all of their Fairyland friends as they explore their world through play and adventure....
		]]>
		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:47:59 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		Dora the Explorer. Pirate adventure [DVD videorecording]. - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21730830</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Dora and her friends are involved in more adventures: they have to go on a rescue mission to get back a treasure chest; Dora and Boots leap into a fairytale to save a prince; Dora and Boots meet a frog who sings beautifully but only on his faraway island - can Dora return him there to recover his voice? As well as enjoying the stories preschoolrs will learn mathematical, musical, auditory, language and other skills from the first feature....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:47:58 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		Discovering dance [DVD videorecording] : dance styles in Aotearoa New Zealand - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21807796</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			1. Follows a group of four young dancers as they discover and take part in a wide range of dance styles and genres. It allows students to view a variety of performances and to explore our multicultural dance heritage. Interviews with choreographers and dancers will help students to understand the contexts of the performances and the many reasons why we dance. 2. Provides extended footage of the dance styles and genres introduced in DVD 1, allowing students to study them in depth. Suggested audience: seconda...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:47:57 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		Dolls [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21855456</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Feature film from Japan. Drama. Three stories of undying love from acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano. Bound by a long red cord, a young couple wanders in search of something they have forgotten. An aging yakuza returns to the park where he used to meet his long-lost girlfriend. A disfigured pop star confronts the phenomenal devotion of her biggest fan ... Three stories delicately intertwined by the beauty of sadness....
		]]>
		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:47:57 GMT</pubDate>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		Classic New Zealand aviation [DVD] - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21919483</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			This video presents archival footage of New Zealand civil and military aviation from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s, taken from publicity films and newsreels of the period--Container....
		]]>
		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:47:56 GMT</pubDate>
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		Children's video about dinosaurs [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b2151060x</link>
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		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Dr. Kent Hovind captivates his young audience with this message to a grade-school assembly as he tells them all about many dinosaurs. He combines a creation science lesson with an easy-to-understand message of salvation for his young listeners....
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:47:55 GMT</pubDate>
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		The chronicles of Narnia. The lion, the witch and the wardrobe [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21690224</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Lucy Pevenise, along with her older brothers Edmund and Peter, and her older sister, Susan, are in London during the initial bombing raids of WW II. Like many families, their parents decide to send them to the country for safer keeping. Peter, the oldest, is told to watch over the children and make sure they stay safe. This simple request will test Peter's ability to protect his siblings, especially after Lucy discovers an amazing secret. The children decide to play hide-and-seek, and during the game Lucy d...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:47:55 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Charlotte's web. 2, Wilbur's great adventure [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b20363564</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Wilbur the pig knows how important friendship is - he learned that from a spider named Charlotte. So when Wilbur meets Cardigan, a lonely lamb, Wilbur immediately makes him his friend. Wilbur shows Cardigan the joys of farm life, and introduces him to three very special spiders - Nellie, Aranea and Joy - Charlotte's daughters. When Farmer Zuckerman suddenly sells Cardigan to another farmer, Wilbur realizes what he must do. Joined by a cunning rat named Templeton, Wilbur and Charlotte's daughters set out on...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:47:54 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Brum. Soccer hero and other stories [DVD videorecording] - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21807887</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Other Fiction / DVD): 
			Five delightful adventures with little Brum, the intrepid vintage car.;Someone is not playing fair in the Big Town soccer game! The Red team are moving the goal posts and now a player has been injured! Can superhero Brum whizz to the rescue? What will the Red team do to stop him? Find out how elastic plastic wreaks havoc in the exciting adventure....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:47:53 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Historical dictionary of the discovery and exploration of the Pacific islands - Max Quanchi		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21923061</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(History, archaeology, military science / Non-Fiction): 
			Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands presents the familiar names of Laperouse, Bougainville, Cook, and Dampier, as well as intriguing stories of The Bounty mutiny, scurvy, and the mysterious Northwest Passage, Terra Australis Ignotia, and Davis Land. Also included are entries on first contacts, ships, navigational instruments, mapping, and botany. The scene is carefully set in the introduction, the chronology spans several centuries, and the extensive bibliography of...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:53 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Texts and contexts : reflections in Pacific Islands historiography - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21681302</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(History, archaeology, military science / Non-Fiction): 
			Texts and Contexts is concerned with the development of Pacific Islands history as a specialization in its own right. Specifically, this volume examines the foundational texts that pioneered and consolidated the new subdiscipline and served as the building blocks and stepping stone for further developments in the field. The earliest text put under the microscope is Ralph Kuykendall's first volume of The Hawaiian Kingdom (1938) and the most recent is Bernard Smith's Imagining the Pacific (1992). Thirty-three...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:53 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Black founders : the unknown story of Australia's first black settlers - Cassandra Pybus		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21886829</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(History, archaeology, military science / Non-Fiction): 
			Black Founders changes the way we think about the foundation of Australia. In an evocative and compelling narrative, distinguished historian and prize-winning author Cassandra Pybus reveals how the settlement of Australia was a multi-racial process from the outset. Pybus has uncovered that our black founders were originally slaves from America who sought freedom with the British during the American Revolution, only to find themselves abandoned and unemployed in England once the war was over.--BOOK JACKET....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:52 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Straight through from London : the Antipodes and Bounty Islands, New Zealand - Rowley Taylor		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21796890</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(New Zealand - travel, geography, history / Non-Fiction): 
			This book vividly details the history and natural history of the remote Antipodes and their tiny neighbours  the Bounty Islands.  In the two hundred years since their discovery the island have suffered annihilation of their fur seal populations  and seen several shipwrecks, the establishment of castaway depots, and attempts to promote pastoral farming.  Today with their undisturbed vegetation and a flourishing wildlife, the islands are truly unique and totally protected as National Nature reserves on the Wo...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:51 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Strangerland : a family at war - Helena Drysdale		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b2173818x</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(New Zealand - travel, geography, history / Non-Fiction): 
			In 1834, twenty-four year old Isabella Campbell left England for India, and within two weeks of joining her brother in Bengal had married his best friend. A dashing cavalry officer in the East India Company, Charles Gascoyne swept his young wife on a tour of garrisons, hill stations and vast military cavalcades, to battlefields and beyond. But after the birth of her ninth baby, Isabella fell ill, and Charles insisted the family should leave India. Not rich enough to buy land back Home, instead he persuaded...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:50 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		And you know you should be glad : a true story of lifelong friendship - Bob Greene		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b2188772x</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(History, archaeology, military science / Non-Fiction): 
			Growing up in Bexley, Ohio, population 13,000, Bob Greene and his four best friends - Allen, Chuck, Dan, and Jack - were inseparable. Of the four, Jack was Bob's very best friend, a bond forged from the moment they met on the first day of kindergarten. They grew up together, got into trouble together, learned about life together - and were ultimately separated by time and distance, as all adults are. But through the years Bob and Jack stayed close, holding on to the friendship that had formed years before....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:49 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Laura Bush : an intimate portrait of the first lady - Ronald Kessler		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21887780</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(History, archaeology, military science / Non-Fiction): 
			When Laura Bush moved into the White House on January 20, 2001, everyone wanted to know what kind of first lady she would be. Would she be like Mamie Eisenhower? Would she follow in Barbara Bush's footsteps? Would she be another Hillary Clinton? I think I'll just be Laura Bush, she would say. The Bushes are more effective than the FBI or CIA at keeping secret what goes on behind the scenes at the White House, the ranch, or Camp David. Now, New York Times author Ronald Kessler draws back that curtain in the...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:48 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		The revenge of Indian Peter : the incredible story of Peter Williamson - Rosemary Linnell		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21887871</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(History, archaeology, military science / Non-Fiction): 
			The year in 1760 and a bizarre figure known as Indian Peter is causing a stir in Edinburgh, claiming that he was kidnapped from his home town of Aberdeen at the age of eleven and sold into slavery in America. He is determined to bring the men who kidnapped him to justice, and seeks legal help. It is left to clerk James McLaurin to find the evidence behind Peter's story of betrayal and brutality. As Peter vividly relates his tale, James learns of the full horrors of his client's life in America, from years o...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:47 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		John Brown, abolitionist : the man who killed slavery, sparked the Civil War, and seeded civil rights - David Reynolds		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21932323</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(History, archaeology, military science / Non-Fiction): 
			When does principled resistance become anarchic brutality? How can a murderer be viewed as a heroic freedom fighter? The case of John Brown opens windows on these timely issues. Was Brown an insane criminal or a Christ-like martyr? A forerunner of Osama bin Laden or of Martin Luther King, Jr.? David Reynolds sorts through the tangled evidence and makes some surprising findings. Reynolds demonstrates that Brown's most violent acts - his slaughter of unarmed citizens in Kansas, his liberation of slaves in Mis...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:47 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Brutal journey : the epic story of the first crossing of North America - Paul Schneider		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b2185869x</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(History, archaeology, military science / Non-Fiction): 
			An account of four explorers adrift in an unknown land and the harrowing journey that took them across North America 270 years before Lewis and Clark. Brutal Journey tells the story of a group of explorers who came to the New World on the heels of Cortes: bound for glory, only four of nearly four hundred would survive. Eight years and some five thousand miles later, three Spaniards and a black Moroccan wandered out of the wilderness north of the Rio Grande and into Cortes gold-drenched Mexico. The four surv...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:46 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		An ordinary man : an autobiography - Paul Rusesabagina		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21657919</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(History, archaeology, military science / Non-Fiction): 
			The riveting life story of Paul Rusesabagina - the man whose heroism inspired the film Hotel Rwanda. As his country was being torn apart by violence during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina, the Oskar Schindler of Africa, refused to bow to the madness that surrounded him. Confronting killers with a combination of diplomacy, flattery, and deception, he offered shelter to more than twelve thousand members of the Tutsi clan and Hutu moderates, while homicidal mobs raged outside with...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:45 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		The secret way to war : the Downing Street Memo and Iraq's buried history - Mark Danner		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21912439</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(History, archaeology, military science / Non-Fiction): 
			In the Secret Way to War, Mark Danner examines in detail the record of decision-making revealed by the so-called Downing Street documents - a set of memoranda and reports, included here in full - that offer an inside view of members of Tony Blair's government and their American counterparts in Washington, as they struggle to come up with legal and political rationales for invading Iraq. These documents prove, writes Danner, that President Bush had decided on war eight months before invading, and only later...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:44 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Cinnamon city - Miranda Innes		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b17391994</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(History, archaeology, military science / Non-Fiction): 
			The author takes you beyond the tourist track, behind the dusky pink walls, and deep inside the romance that is Marrakech.  With lyrical and evocative descriptions of swirling colours, flavours and aromas, this glorious book will open your eyes to this most exotic of North African cities....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:44 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		With their backs to the world : portraits from Serbia - Ă…sne Seierstad		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b1790268x</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(History, archaeology, military science / Non-Fiction): 
			From the author of 'THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL' comes this title, an account of the lives of 12 Serbian people....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:43 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Osman's dream : the story of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923 - Caroline Finkel		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21435042</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(History, archaeology, military science / Non-Fiction): 
			A lucid account of the epic story of the Ottoman empire, from its origins in the thirteenth century through its destruction on the battlefields of World War I, takes readers into the one of the largest and most influential empires in world history that extended from Hungary to the Persian Gulf and from North Africa to the Caucasus....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:43 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Catherine the Great : love, sex and power - Virginia Rounding		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21733235</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(History, archaeology, military science / Non-Fiction): 
			This is the story of Catherine the woman, whom power alone could never satisfy, for she also wanted love, affection, friendship and humour. She found these in letter-writing, in grandchildren, in gardens, architecture and greyhounds - as well as in a succession of lovers which gave rise to salacious rumours throughout Europe. The real Catherine, however, was more interesting than any rumour. Using many of Catherine's own words from her voluminous correspondence and other documents, as well as contemporary a...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:42 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Ghosts of Spain : travels through a country's hidden past - Giles Tremlett		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21609354</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(History, archaeology, military science / Non-Fiction): 
			Sixty years after the Spanish Civil War ended, the appearance of mass graves containing victims of Franco's death squads broke what Spaniards call 'the pact of forgetting'. This book questions the cause of the Civil War, why Basque terrorists kill and why the Catalans hate Madrid....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:41 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		The battle for Spain : the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 - Antony Beevor		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21761450</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(History, archaeology, military science / Non-Fiction): 
			The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against Franco was one of the most hard-fought and bitterest conflicts of the 20th century: a war of atrocities and political genocide and a military testing ground before WWII for the Russians, Italians and Germans, whose Condor Legion so notoriously destroyed Guernica. His account narrates the origins of the Civil War and its violent and dramatic course from the coup d...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:41 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Fatal purity : Robespierre and the French Revolution - Ruth Scurr		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21657737</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(History, archaeology, military science / Non-Fiction): 
			A riveting biography of the French Revolutionâ€™s most enigmatic figure that restores him to his pivotal historic place. Since his execution by guillotine in July 1794, Maximilien Robespierre has been contested terrain for historians, at once the most notorious leader of the French Revolution and the least comprehensible. Was he a bloodthirsty charlatan or the only true defender of revolutionary ideals? Was his extreme moralism, he was known as â€śThe Incorruptible, a heroic virtue or a ruinous flaw? Was he...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:40 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		The burning of the vanities : Savonarola and the Borgia Pope - Desmond Seward		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21744968</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(History, archaeology, military science / Non-Fiction): 
			This volume tells the story of Girolamo Savonarola, the visionary friar who terrified Renaissance Florence by his uncannily accurate prophesies of doom - especially of a new barbarian invasion from Charles VIII - and denounced Lorenzo the Magnificent as a tyrant and the Borgia Alexander VI as an unworthy pope....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:40 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Voices from Dickens' London : first-hand accounts of life in the great metropolis - Michael Paterson		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21931719</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(History, archaeology, military science / Non-Fiction): 
			Today, London is a thriving and cultured capital, but the city Charles Dickens knew was an altogether different place. During the years that the novelist knew it (1822-1870) London was the largest city in the world, and the dirtiest, most diseased and crime-ridden place on earth. Using Dickens' own writings about the city, as well as descriptions by his contemporaries and most popular characters, Michael Paterson offers a rare insight into the daily life of London and its residents, giving an in-depth stree...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:39 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Brothers in war - Michael Walsh		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21889302</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(History, archaeology, military science / Non-Fiction): 
			The Beecheys were a close-knit family, eight brothers and five sisters under the loving eye of their widowed mother, Amy. As the First World War raged across Europe and beyond, the brothers were one-by-one swept up into its devastating path. Some of them were keen to enlist from the start, others were conscripted, and some dead against. Even Chris and Harold, who thought they had left the Old World behind them for ever for a new life down under, felt honour-bound to enlist in the Australian army and journey...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:38 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Auschwitz : the Nazis and the 'final solution' - Laurence Rees		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21709026</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(History, archaeology, military science / Non-Fiction): 
			In 'Auschwitz', author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners into the site of the largest mass murder in history - part death camp, part concentration camp, where around a million Jews were killed. Rees uses Auschwitz as a window through which to examine the Holocaust in its broader context. He argues that, far from being an aberration, the camp was a uniqu...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:38 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Engineering the ancient world - Dick Parry		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21580418</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(History, archaeology, military science / Non-Fiction): 
			'Engineering The Ancient World' provides a topical and unconventional account of some of the greatest early feats of engineering and design....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:37 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Culture shock! Britain : a survival guide to customs and etiquette - Terry Tan		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21883269</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Travel &amp; geography / Non-Fiction): 
			CultureShock, Britain sets out to help you understand and integrate into the British way of life.  The book offers insights on how to break down cultural barriers, relate with the people and appreciate the country for its worth. This boook also gives useful advice on practical matters such as how to find suitable accomodation and education institutions for your family....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:36 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Images of a nation : Rotorua : a journey from the heart - Rob Tucker		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21762983</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(New Zealand - travel, geography, history / Non-Fiction): 
			Pictorial journey thorugh Rotorua visiting its gardens, culturepoeple, landscape, activities and the like....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:36 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Only fools and hearses - Davin Ardlie		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21428311</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Travel &amp; geography / Non-Fiction): 
			Journey with a group of Aussie mates who manage to avoid most of the cultural icons of Europe and beyond in their search for adventure and romance....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:35 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Code green : experiences of a lifetime - Kerry Lorimer		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21625761</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Travel &amp; geography / Non-Fiction): 
			Kerry Lorimer details unique and culturally authentic travel experiences that protect and preserve the ecological and cultural environment. She highlights some of the things the reader can do that will provide a lasting impact, whether its spending money lazing on a Sri Lankan beach or volunteering in Africa....
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:34 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Marry me : a very funny proposal - Carey Marx		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21604873</link>
		<description>
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		(Language and literature in English, linguistics, learning English / Non-Fiction): 
			Aged 39, Carey Marx has decided to find a woman and marry her by the end of August 2005. This book tells the story of the six months in which he trys to find himself a wife. Through advertisements on the Internet, on radio, and through friends, he sets out to meet the woman who will be the one for him...
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:33 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Voltaire almighty : a life in pursuit of freedom - Roger Pearson		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21590394</link>
		<description>
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		(Language &amp; literature - languages other than English / Non-Fiction): 
			In this new biography of Voltaire, Roger Pearson provides a lively look at the life and thought of one of the major forces behind the European Enlightenment. A rebel from start to finish (1694-1778), Voltaire was an ailing and unwanted bastard child who refused to die; and when he did consent to expire some eighty-four years later, he secured a Christian burial despite a bishop's ban. Voltaire's plays and verse made him the toast of society, but the author of Candide and The Philosophical Dictionary was a t...
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:33 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Kathleen and Christopher : Christopher Isherwood's letters to his mother - Christopher Isherwood		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21893391</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Language and literature in English, linguistics, learning English / Non-Fiction): 
			Because Christopher Isherwood destroyed his diaries from 1935 to 1940, the letters in this volume - published for the first time and edited and introduced by Lisa Colletta - provide one of the few records of this part of his life not filtered through the lens of time and memory. Warm, confiding, and sometimes quite caustic, the letters reveal a closer affection between the young Isherwood and his mother than his biographers have portrayed. While Isherwood acknowledged that it took him a long time to come to...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:32 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Lillian Hellman : a life with foxes and scoundrels - Deborah Martinson		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21561795</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Language and literature in English, linguistics, learning English / Non-Fiction): 
			Few literary celebrities have lived with more abandon and under a brighter spotlight than Lillian Hellman. Yet even fewer have been doubted as absolutely as Hellman, famously denounced by rival Mary McCarthy as a writer for whom every word was a lie, including 'and' and 'the'. Attacked by critics and idealised by admirers, Hellman's own determination to control and manipulate her image helped make her a figure of unknowable half-truths and rumours. Until now....
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:30 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Georgette Heyer's Regency world - Jennifer Kloester		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21485884</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Language and literature in English, linguistics, learning English / Non-Fiction): 
			This book recreates Georgette Heyer's most enchanting characters and their most memorable scenes in the locations in which they actually took place, guiding the reader through them in a series of tours....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:30 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Pikau &amp; rifle : hunting deer, thar and chamois in the Southern Alps, Fiordland, Stewart Island and Longwoods - Daryl Marshall		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21691435</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Hunting, fishing, whaling, fish farming / Non-Fiction): 
			Daryl Marshall, was a veterinary student who was employed from 1965 by the Forest and Range Experiment Station (A branch of the Forestry Service) during his University vacations, doing ecological surveys on chamois, thar, red deer and wapiti.  The amusing things that happened are captured plus the risky adventures experienced.  Many later hunting trips to the West Coast, Fiordland and Stewart Island are described.  This book is more a story of the hunters than one of shooting trophy animals....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:29 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Adventure cycling handbook - Stephen Lord		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21468941</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Recreation, games, sports, motorsport, sailing, fitness / Non-Fiction): 
			A practical guide for the cyclist wishing to tour the world by bike. The first part gives practical advice on planning, preparation, bikes available and how to choose the best and most suitable, how to adapt a bike to one's own use and choosing suitable components, equipment, etc and health precautions, inoculations and so on. In part 2 trans-continental routes are discusses and in part 3, ten first-hand accounts are given of biking adventures from around the world....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:28 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		The salmon rivers of the North Highlands and the Outer Hebrides - Andrew Graham-Stewart		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21580455</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Hunting, fishing, whaling, fish farming / Non-Fiction): 
			Based on extensive research and drawing on archival material, this volume charts the development of over 50 Scottish salmon rivers over the past 200 years, and will appeal not only to anglers but also anyone interested in the social and cultural history of the Scottish Highlands and Islands....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:28 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		The Big Bam : the life and times of Babe Ruth - Leigh Montville		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b2176914x</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Recreation, games, sports, motorsport, sailing, fitness / Non-Fiction): 
			Babe Ruth owned most of the hitting records for decades, including single-season and career home runs--and all this during the dead ball era. Even now, the baseball fan can only be awed by what Ruth accomplished, not to mention the adulation he engendered. And if Robert Creamer's highly readable Babe (1974) is still the benchmark biography, Montville brings fresh observations to his subject, one being that Ruth probably suffered from attention-deficit disorder, which accounts for his inexhaustible energy fo...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:27 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Men in black - Ron Palenski		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21720976</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Recreation, games, sports, motorsport, sailing, fitness / Non-Fiction): 
			It is 28 years since Men in Black was first published and while a lot has changed in rugby in that time, the purpose of the book has not: to provide a record, both in narrative and statistical form, of every test played by the All Blacks. Last published in 2000, Men in Black is the definitive record of All Black test rugby since 1903, when New Zealand played its first full-scale international against Australia in Sydney. Compiled by three of New Zealand's most respected rugby historians and writers, this th...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:26 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		The year the Kiwis flew : from wooden spooners to winners - Peter Leitch		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21650573</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Recreation, games, sports, motorsport, sailing, fitness / Non-Fiction): 
			In 2005 the Kiwi Rugby League team won the Gilette Tri-Nations Rugby League series against Britain and Australia.  What was even better was how they won - thrashing the Kangaroos by 24 glorious points to nil.  Hear in their own words how the boys took on the world's best and came away the winners.  Celebrate an amazing team and their superb achievement.  Savour the memory of their greatest tour with profiles on leading players, incidents and anecdotes from behind the scenes and exciting match summaries, ill...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:26 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		The actor's survival handbook - Patrick Tucker		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21603546</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Performing arts, acting, dance, music / Non-Fiction): 
			The Actor's Survival Handbook gives you answers to all these questions and many more. Written with verve and humor, this utterly essential tool speaks to every actor's deepest concerns. Drawing upon their years of experience on stage, backstage, and with the camera, Patrick Tucker and Christine Ozanne offer forthright advice on topics from breathing to props, commitment to learning lines, audience response to simply landing the job in the first place. The book is rich with examples - both technical and insp...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:25 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		IMovie 6 &amp; iDVD : the missing manual - David Pogue		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21833461</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Arts, drawing, graphic arts, painting, photography, printmaking / Non-Fiction): 
			Featuring five professionally designed themes with backgrounds, motion graphics, titles and effects that act as building blocks for projects, this guide to iMovie HD 6 shows users how to preview effects in real time using the full screen, and add sound effects with a built-in sound studio....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:24 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Historical dictionary of Australian and New Zealand cinema - Albert Moran		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21529140</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Performing arts, acting, dance, music / Non-Fiction): 
			Historical dictionary of Australian and New Zealand cinema is an introduction to the films of these countries. Although more scholarly than a cinema or fan magazine, it covers some of the same ground, with enteries on exceptional producers, directors, writers, actors and many films. It also presents the early pioneers, the cinemas themselves, film companies, and government bodies, and much more in its hundreds of dictionary enteries....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:24 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		The digital canvas - Jonathan Raimes		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21786951</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Arts, drawing, graphic arts, painting, photography, printmaking / Non-Fiction): 
			Explores contemporary computer-generated art and shows how the computer can be a flexible and surprising tool for visual experimentation. This is not an instruction manual, but the digital equivalent of a survey of techniques and materials in the fine arts, emphasising creativity and visual thinking over rote learning. It takes the elements common to all visual art and shows how they can be deployed using digital resources....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:23 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		The book of photography - Anne Hoy		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21900863</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Arts, drawing, graphic arts, painting, photography, printmaking / Non-Fiction): 
			Anchored by over 200 images, from the early efforts of key 19th century pioneers like William Henry Fox Talbot and Louis-Jacques-Mande Deguerre to stunning work by 21st-century masters of the art, The Book of Photography traces technical discoveries and aesthetic developments alike and shows how brilliant amateurs and consummate professionals have focused on every field of endeavor: art and architecture, portraiture, journalism, advertising and fashion, scientific research, and more. We enter such bygone wo...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:22 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Pixel surgeons : extreme manipulation of the figure in photography - Martin Dawber		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21443816</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Arts, drawing, graphic arts, painting, photography, printmaking / Non-Fiction): 
			Presenting the best of styling and illusion in photography today, Pixel Surgeons showcases 30 of the most exceptional practitioners of photography and digital manipulation from around the world. Their images and their words give a unique insight into this fascinating art form....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:22 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		E. Mervyn Taylor : artist : craftsman - Bryan James		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21881777</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Arts, drawing, graphic arts, painting, photography, printmaking / Non-Fiction): 
			Mervyn Taylor (1906-64) is the greatest exponent of the art of wood engraving New Zealand has known. His images have enduring power and a beauty which has been matched by no other artist. This is the story of his life and work....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:21 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Gothic nightmares : Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic imagination - Martin Myrone		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21700230</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Arts, drawing, graphic arts, painting, photography, printmaking / Non-Fiction): 
			Gothic nightmares explorers the taste for weird, supernatural and fantastic themes in British art between 1770 and 1830....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:20 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Survival and change : three generations of Balinese painters - Christopher Hill		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21886945</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Arts, drawing, graphic arts, painting, photography, printmaking / Non-Fiction): 
			Survival and change explores the work of three generations of Balinese painters in the context of the extraordinary political and social changes that have occured in the region during the 20th century....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:20 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Freight train graffiti - Roger Gastman		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b2174516x</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Arts, drawing, graphic arts, painting, photography, printmaking / Non-Fiction): 
			As dazzling as the art it celebrates, the book is packed with 1,000 full-colour illustrations and features interviews with more than 125 train artists and writers. Hundreds of photographs span the style's evolution, while the authors provide perspective, including the first-ever written history of monikers, the precursors of graffiti, developed by hobos and rail workers to communicate en route....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:19 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Alligators, old mink, and new money : one woman's adventures in vintage clothing - Alison Houtte		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21629584</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Clothes, fashion, style, textile arts, weaving, embroidery, etc... / Non-Fiction): 
			Alligators, Old Mink and New Money is a celebration of the clothes that capture our memories and imaginations; that leave their indelible stamp on each of our lives....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:18 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Island living : inland retreats and shoreside havens - Linda Paul		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21750531</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Decorating, home furnishings, decorative arts / Non-Fiction): 
			Introduces island homes with comments on how attitudes toward islands have shifted from shipwreck nightmares to paradisial fantasies. The author tours 25 North American homes in landscapes exemplifying diverse island lifestyles, from the San Juan Islands in the Pacific Northwest to Cape Cod....
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:18 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		The Ashford book of spinning - Anne Field		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21536156</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Clothes, fashion, style, textile arts, weaving, embroidery, etc... / Non-Fiction): 
			Spinning is a practical and creatively satisfying hobby with continual appeal, especially in this age of mass production.  The Ashford Book of Spinning is a comprehensive spinning guide written by a leading New Zealand spinner and weaver.  The author, Anne Field, has an international reputation as a first-class teacher, writer and superb craftsperson.  With clearly written and easy to understand instructions this book includes over one hundred illustrations and step-by step photographs and diagrams.  In add...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:17 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Beginner's guide to machine embroidered flowers - Alison Holt		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21714265</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Clothes, fashion, style, textile arts, weaving, embroidery, etc... / Non-Fiction): 
			Alison Holt uses hand-painted silk backgrounds and only two different stitches to create a range of machine embroidered flowers and gardens. The detailed step-by-step illustrations make this book suitable for all abilities....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:17 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Crystal beaded jewellery  : rings, necklaces and other sparkling jewels - Christine Hooghe		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b2155108x</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Decorating, home furnishings, decorative arts / Non-Fiction): 
			In this book Christine and Sylvie Hooghe guide the reader through the materials, equipment and skills needed to produce eye-catching collections of sparkling crystal beaded jewellery. The themed projects include Venice, Imperial China, the baroque and Edwardian eras, and fruits and flowers. Styles range from the stunning and innovatively modern to richly colourful classic. There is something here for everyone, whether your taste is for a delicately understated necklace, an opulently glistening brooch, or a...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:16 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Tribal art - Judith Miller		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21709130</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Decorating, home furnishings, decorative arts / Non-Fiction): 
			Colour guide to world tribal art which includes historical information, collector's tips and price guides. Depicts over a thousand items with accurate descriptions, up-to-date valuations and close-up features to help a collector identify the best pieces....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:15 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Organizing your craft space - Jo Packham		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21599178</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Decorating, home furnishings, decorative arts / Non-Fiction): 
			Straightforward advice to organizing your craft space. The book is divided by type of craft: rubberstamping and stenciling, scrapbooking, paper crafting, quilting, stained glass and mosaics, beading, and yarn crafts and needlework....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:15 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Human anatomy : from the Reanaissance to the digital age - Benjamin Rifkin		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21787852</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Arts, drawing, graphic arts, painting, photography, printmaking / Non-Fiction): 
			Lavishly illustrated anatomy books have long been prized by artists, physicians, and other educated readers. Human Anatomy is the first authoritative history of anatomical illustration to include the most recent scientific discoveries and digital imagery. The book includes concise biographies of the great anatomists of history, as well as superb reproductions of anatomical renderings by Leonardo da Vinci, Vesalius, and many others, showing how science and art worked harmoniously to disseminate an evolving u...
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:14 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Tiffany's Palm Beach - John Loring		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21853605</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Architecture, building, carpentry, plumbing, renovation / Non-Fiction): 
			With its extravagant homes, sumptuous gardens, and iconic residents, Palm Beach radiates luxury and wealth. Tiffanys Palm Beach showcases roughly 70 of the areas wealthiest, most powerful, and, in some cases, most reclusive residents in and around their stylishly opulent homes and gardens....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:13 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		The beginner's guide to digital design : use your computer to create great graphics. - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21931318</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Arts, drawing, graphic arts, painting, photography, printmaking / Non-Fiction): 
			Having a home computer means there is no longer any barrier to designing and making your own stationery, invitations, business cards, and CVs. But why stop there? Why not design a logo for your home business, a DVD cover for the family videos, put together an online portfolio, or create fantastic brochures, flyers, magazines and newsletters? This book reveals the secrets of effective, professional-looking design, from how to use color and type to how to choose your materials. It then walks you through the s...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:13 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Dada : the revolt of art - Marc Dachy		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21743794</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Arts, drawing, graphic arts, painting, photography, printmaking / Non-Fiction): 
			The word 'Dada' was chosen at random by a group of young artists and writers from a dictionary in the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916; it soon came to represent a cause taken up by a diaspora of young utopian artists who were trying to counter the madness of the tumultuous years of the First World War. From 1915 to 1925 the movement became international, with Dadaists in Zurich, Berlin, New York, Barcelona and Paris. Dada poets, painters, photographers and theorists - including Jean Arp, Johannes Bader, Hugo Ball,...
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:12 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Easy guide to eco-building : design, build and live with the environment - Peter Mittermuller		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21923887</link>
		<description>
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		(Architecture, building, carpentry, plumbing, renovation / Non-Fiction): 
			This booklet explains how you can undertake construction projects with consideration for the environment and increase building performance and comfort....
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:12 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		The complete guide to digital type : creative use of typography in the digital arts - Andy Ellison		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21931367</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Manufacturing, engineering, boatbuilding, technology, inventions / Non-Fiction): 
			This comprehensive guide to creating and using digital type, both in print and for the web, is an essential reference for students and practicing designers alike. With clear, authoritative text and over 400 diagrams and full-color illustrations.--BOOK JACKET.; This comprehensive guide to creating and using digital type, both in print and for the web, is an essential reference for students and practising designers alike. An introduction offers a brief history and discusses font classification, software and t...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:11 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Dealing with Darwin : how great companies innovate at every phase of their evolution - Geoffrey Moore		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21626868</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Economics, commerce, management, marketing, investing / Non-Fiction): 
			Dealing with Darwin will help you understand your company's role in it market ecosystem; where your competitive advantage came from in the past and how it will change in the future; what kinds of differentiation will be most rewarded in your current marketplace; and how to transform your internal dynamics to overcome the inertia that threatens every bold innovation....
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:10 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Spray finishing and other techniques - N/A		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21730891</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Manufacturing, engineering, boatbuilding, technology, inventions / Non-Fiction): 
			A professional looking finish is the dream of most woodworkers. One way to achieve it is through modern spray finishing. Recent improvements in the equipment and widespread adoption have lowered costs making this technique widely available. But there is little information apart from magazine articles and our 1996 book. This book collects the best recent articles from Fine Woodworking on spray finishing and other modern finishing techniques....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:10 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		The heart of change field guide : tools and tactics for leading change in your organization - Dan Cohen		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21512814</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Economics, commerce, management, marketing, investing / Non-Fiction): 
			In 1996, John P. Kotter's Leading Change became a runaway best seller, outlining an eight-step program for organizational change that was embraced by executives around the world. Then, Kotter and co-author Dan Cohen's The Heart of Change introduced the revolutionary see-feel-change approach, which helped executives understand the crucial role of emotion in successful change efforts. Now, The Heart of Change Field Guide provides leaders and managers tools, frameworks, and advice for bringing these breakthrou...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:09 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Hard facts, dangerous half-truths, and total nonsense : profiting from evidence-based management - Jeffrey Pfeffer		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21705598</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Economics, commerce, management, marketing, investing / Non-Fiction): 
			The best organizations have the best talent... Financial incentives drive company performance... Firms must change or die. Popular axioms like these drive business decisions every day. Yet too much common management wisdom isnâ€™t wise at all-but, instead, flawed knowledge based on best practices that are actually poor, incomplete, or outright obsolete. Worse, legions of managers use this dubious knowledge to make decisions that are hazardous to organizational health. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton sh...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:08 GMT</pubDate>
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		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		The Apple way - Jeffrey Cruikshank		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21511159</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Economics, commerce, management, marketing, investing / Non-Fiction): 
			Shows you how to use the success secrets of Steve Jobs to create a stylistic and technological revolution in any company The computer industry has seen significant losses over the past few years, but one company has emerged with unprecedented profitability. The Apple Way examines how the company combines innovative, integrated product development, exceptional customer support, a high-performance corporate culture, sleek packaging, and cutting-edge marketing to keep the business ahead of the curve and on top...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:07 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Plenty more fish in the CBD : how to hook the right girl and keep her - David Rhind		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21323070</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Clothes, fashion, style, textile arts, weaving, embroidery, etc... / Non-Fiction): 
			For blokes who profess to never reading books, Geoff Neal and David Rhind can spin a great yarn. Aimed especially at men like them, the book contains lots of breakout boxes with random facts, fish tales, quotes, and supporting material. This is great humour but it's also more than that - there is a lot of really helpful and insightful information on relating to women.--GBP....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:06 GMT</pubDate>
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		<item>
		<title><![CDATA[
		Heat : an amateur's adventures as kitchen slave, line cook, pasta maker, and apprentice to a Dante-quoting butcher in Tuscany - Bill Buford		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21769837</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Food, cooking, nutrition / Non-Fiction): 
			Bill Buford had long thought of himself as a reasonably comfortable cook when in 2002 he finally decided to answer a question that had nagged him every time he prepared a meal: What kind of cook could he be if he worked in a professional kitchen? When the opportunity arose to train in the kitchen of Mario Bataliâ€™s three-star New York restaurant, Babbo, Buford grabbed it. Heat is the chronicle of his time spent as Bataliâ€™s â€śslaveâ€? and of his  apprenticeships with culinary masters in Italy.  He descri...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:05 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Gordon Ramsay's Sunday lunch : and other recipes from the F word - Gordon Ramsay		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21656848</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Food, cooking, nutrition / Non-Fiction): 
			A follow-up to 'Gordon Ramsay Makes it Easy', this is a collection of 100 dishes, featuring seasonal ingredients and produce from around the country. Each of the four chapters - Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter - feature recipes for soups and starters; rice, pasta and noodles; fish; poultry and meat; and desserts....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:04 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		The Hairy Bikers cookbook - Dave Myers		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21823790</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Food, cooking, nutrition / Non-Fiction): 
			With their zest for both adventure and food and their laugh-out-loud capacity for fun, the Hairy Bikers make a very entertaining pair, travelling on their motorbikes to the ends of the earth in search of great meals to bring home to their friends. The journeys are exciting, the locations and people are fascinating and the food is delicious and unpredictable, often caught by the boys and then prepared and cooked by the side of a river, on a boat or on the beach. Funny, endearing and down-to-earth, they will...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:04 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		The nasty bits : collected varietal cuts, usable trim, scraps, and bones - Anthony Bourdain		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21639747</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Food, cooking, nutrition / Non-Fiction): 
			Intended for the fans of Anthony Bourdain, this is a collection of his journalism. Containing stories from his misadventures, it talks about scrounging for eel in the backstreets of Hanoi, the unglamorous aspects of making television, calling for the head of raw food activist Woody Harrelson, and confessing to lobster-killing guilt....
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:03 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Harvest for hope : a guide to mindful eating - Jane Goodall		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21460772</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Food, cooking, nutrition / Non-Fiction): 
			Renowned scientist and bestselling author Goodall delivers an eye-opening and empowering book that explores the social and personal significance of the food people produce and consume. --Global Books in Print....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:02 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Apples for jam : recipes for life - Tessa Kiros		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21725779</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Food, cooking, nutrition / Non-Fiction): 
			Inspired by the excitement and simplicity of childhood, Tessa has brought together recipes based around colourful and pure fresh ingredients that create uncomplicated and delicious family meals. It contains recipes from the comfort of soups and roasts, to the colourful beetroot gnocchi and mango sorbet, to the simplicity of rice....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:02 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Hungry planet : what the world eats - Faith D'Aluisio		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21832274</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Food, cooking, nutrition / Non-Fiction): 
			A photographic collection exploring what the world eats featuring portraits of thirty families from twenty-four countries surrounded by a week's worth of food--Provided by publisher....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:01 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Cesar's way : the natural, everyday guide to understanding and correcting common dog problems - Cesar Millan		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21700692</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Home economics, household budgeting, pets / Non-Fiction): 
			Cesar Millan, star of National Geographic Channelâ€™s hit show Dog Whisperer, reveals what dogs truly need to live a happy and fulfilled life.  Tracing his own amazing journey from a clay-walled farm in Mexico to the celebrity palaces of Los Angeles, Cesar recounts how he learned what makes dogs tick.  He shares this wisdom, laying the groundwork for you to have stronger, more satisfying relationships with your canine companions.   Cesarâ€™s formula for a contented and balanced dog seems impossibly simple:...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Dog training for dummies - Joachim Volhard		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b2139216x</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Home economics, household budgeting, pets / Non-Fiction): 
			This bestselling guide has been updated to cover the popular clicker training method! A great reference for owners of adolescent and adult canines as well as puppies, this revised guide helps dog owners select the right training method for their pets, offering step-by-step instruction in basic commands. Discover how to appreciate the influence of nutrition on your dog's behavior, teach your dog basic commands, determine your dog's personality, make training fun and effective....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Dog tricks : fun and games for your clever canine - Mary Ray		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21905575</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Home economics, household budgeting, pets / Non-Fiction): 
			Amaze friends and family with your dog's mental and physical abilities, enhance your relationship with your dog, make exercising fun and obedience rewarding, learn with easy-to-understand, step-by-step training instructions and detailed photographs....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:57:59 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		The good good pig : the extraordinary life of Christopher Hogwood - Sy Montgomery		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21827138</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Home economics, household budgeting, pets / Non-Fiction): 
			This is a story from an award-winning nature writer and adventurer about finding herself and a connection to others through her remarkable pet pig. A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote jungles, Sy Montgomery had always felt more comfortable with animals than with people. So she gladly opened her heart to a sick piglet who had been crowded away from nourishing meals by his stronger siblings. Yet Sy had no inkling that this piglet, later named Christopher Ho...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:57:58 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Putting-to a pair - Caroline Douglas		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b2146117x</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Home economics, household budgeting, pets / Non-Fiction): 
			A guide to the most efficient method of harnessing. Also included are tips on selecting a pair and carriage, pair harness, mounting the carriage and unharnessing the pair....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:57:57 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Top chops : master chopper builders - Dave Nichols		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21580297</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Manufacturing, engineering, boatbuilding, technology, inventions / Non-Fiction): 
			Featuring spectacular motorcycle photography, this volume includes profiles and pics of the hottest chopper builders working today....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:57:56 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		An illustrated guide to New Zealand hebes - Michael Bayly		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b2152970x</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Gardening, agriculture, landscaping / Non-Fiction): 
			An indispensable guide to hebes, one of New Zealand's best known native plants. This book is a comprehensive guide to the identification, classification and biology of hebes. Each species is described in detail, with distribution maps, a page of full-colour photographs and information on recognition, variation, flowering time, chromosome number, botanics nomenclature and etymology. Lists of common and Maori names are included....
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:57:56 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Citroen Traction Avant - Jon Pressnell		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21580303</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Manufacturing, engineering, boatbuilding, technology, inventions / Non-Fiction): 
			The Citroen Traction Avant was as innovative as it was popular. Combining unitary construction, independent front suspension and front-wheel drive, it was years ahead of its time. Jon Pressnell discusses the history of this motoring icon....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:57:55 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Jane's vintage aircraft recognition guide - Tony Holmes		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21904248</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Manufacturing, engineering, boatbuilding, technology, inventions / Non-Fiction): 
			This recognition guide from the Jane's information group covers all aircraft, both operational and grounded to the 1970s, an enjoyable book for all those who love vintage aircraft....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:57:54 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Porsche 911 : perfection by design - Randy Leffingwell		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21580273</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Manufacturing, engineering, boatbuilding, technology, inventions / Non-Fiction): 
			Written by an acknowledged 911 expert, this richly illustrated book is the inside story on how the 911 came to be, what it was, what it is now, and how it moved through 40+ years of evolution, growth, and improvement....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:57:54 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Relative stranger : a sister's story - Mary Loudon		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21675065</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Medicine, health, diseases, safety, survival, first aid / Non-Fiction): 
			Relative Stranger is the story of Mary Loudon's search for her dead sister, whom she had not seen for the last twelve years of her life. An account of the devastation that schizophrenia can visit upon a person and their family, it will leave no reader unaffected. Relative Stranger offers a profound and uncompromising challenge to the ways in which we think about one another. Perhaps most compelling is the author's internal journey as she faces head-on her sister's illness. As Loudon dissects our definitions...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:57:53 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		The complete guide to metal boats : building, maintenance, and repair - R Roberts-Goodson		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21477279</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Manufacturing, engineering, boatbuilding, technology, inventions / Non-Fiction): 
			The complete guide to metal boats tells you all you need to know to start building your own boat: how to build or refurbish hulls, decks and superstructures; how to prevent corrosion; building from plans or precut kits; sample designs for sail and powerboats....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:57:53 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Feast or famine : a New Zealand guide to understanding eating disorders - Karen McMillan		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21690790</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Medicine, health, diseases, safety, survival, first aid / Non-Fiction): 
			Eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia and binge-eating are rife in todayâ€™s society, affecting thousands of women and, increasingly, men.  These disorders can be incredibly destructive, affecting not only the body but the mind.  Food becomes a weapon of self-destruction in the face of societal problems, low self-esteem and emotional problems.   Feast or Famine is a comprehensive guide for those currently battling an eating disorder and for their families and friends. It covers facts about each of the...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:57:52 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Arthritis and how to live with it - Andrew Harrison		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21690753</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Medicine, health, diseases, safety, survival, first aid / Non-Fiction): 
			Although we can not yet cure arthritis, you can learn how to handle it and with the correct management it's possible for anyone with the condition to live a full and satisfying life.  Using simple everyday language, this book tells you how this can be done.  The authors are New Zealanders who each bring a different perspective to the subject.  They have brought together their experience and knowledge to help you and your family and friends understand the nature of the different types of arthritis, explain w...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:57:51 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		The archaeology of disease - Charlotte Roberts		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21580431</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Medicine, health, diseases, safety, survival, first aid / Non-Fiction): 
			This book summarises the current state of archaeological knowledge about human disease and injury in the distant past. It throws fresh light on the health of our ancestors and on the conditions in which they lived....
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:57:50 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Asthma and how to live with it - Shaun Holt		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21690777</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Medicine, health, diseases, safety, survival, first aid / Non-Fiction): 
			This book covers the basics of asthma for New Zealand readers.  It looks at the clinical issues and the lifestyle issues, and is presented in plain English.  The first part of the book looks at asthma - what it is, signs and symptoms, what to expect from your doctor, treatments and medication.  There are also special chapters on asthma and children, and asthma and pregnancy.  The second part looks at lifestyle issues - diet, exercise, mind/body/spirit issues, and important lifestyle aspects non-asthmatics t...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:57:50 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		How we heal : understanding the mind-body-spirit connection - Douglas Morrison		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21875029</link>
		<description>
		<![CDATA[
		(Medicine, health, diseases, safety, survival, first aid / Non-Fiction): 
			Covering nutrition and other such influences in great depth, How We Heal relates these factors to a much broader picture, going far beyond the physical to examine the emotional and spiritual elements that cause illness and can block even the most powerful healing methods from success. Author Douglas W. Morrison's genius lies in explaining the full nature of the healing crisis and the role of resistance (judgments obscuring awareness) in preventing us from getting well. This book serves as an excellent intro...
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		</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:57:49 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[
		Just a little prick - Peter Butler		]]>
		</title>
		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21892441</link>
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		(Medicine, health, diseases, safety, survival, first aid / Non-Fiction): 
			A vaccination is not just a little prick.   For many children, just a little prick represents a lie. Those behind the needle point â€” pharmaceutical companies, politicians, health departments, medical advisers, doctors and nurses encouraging an overuse of vaccinations.  For them there is a message to promote, that vaccinations are safe.  The majority of parents seem to have been persuaded â€” often against their better judgement. Why? Is informed choice possible when the dice are so heavily loaded? How are...
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:57:48 GMT</pubDate>
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		China syndrome : the true story of the 21st century's first great epidemic - Karl Greenfeld		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21886763</link>
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		(Medicine, health, diseases, safety, survival, first aid / Non-Fiction): 
			In riveting and dramatic fashion, Greenfeld takes readers to the front lines of the SARS crisis and raises disturbing questions about when--and how--the world will face the next deadly (an inevitable) viral mutation....
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:57:48 GMT</pubDate>
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		The female brain - Louann Brizendine		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21911691</link>
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		(Medicine, health, diseases, safety, survival, first aid / Non-Fiction): 
			Berizendine reveals the neurological explanations behind why, a woman uses about 20,000 words per day, while a man uses about 7,000, a woman remembers fights that a man insists never happened, a teen girl is so obsessed with her looks and talking on the phone....woman over fifty is more likely to initiate divorce than a man....
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:57:47 GMT</pubDate>
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		Francis Crick : discoverer of the genetic code - Matt Ridley		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21877452</link>
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		(Science - biology, botany, animals, fossils, dinosaurs / Non-Fiction): 
			Francis Crick, who died at the age of eighty-eight in 2004, will be bracketed with Galileo, Darwin, and Einstein as one of the great scientists of all time. Between 1953 and 1966 he made and led a revolution in biology by discovering, quite literally, the secret of life: the digital cipher at the heart of heredity that distinguishes living from non-living things - the genetic code. His own discoveries - though he always worked with one other partner and did much of his thinking in conversation - include not...
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:57:46 GMT</pubDate>
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		Dry water : diving head first into Africa - Tammie Matson		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21574947</link>
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		(Science - biology, botany, animals, fossils, dinosaurs / Non-Fiction): 
			Aged fifteen, Tammie Matson travelled to Zimbabwe with her father. That journey changed her forever. On her return to Australia, Tammie turned her life upside-down in order to find a way to build a future for herself in Africa. During her next visit, a year spent in Zimbabwe, Tammie played with a semi-tame cheetah, got taught the meaning of respect by elephants, dealt with poachers, saw a witchdoctor strike fear into his victims' hearts and took on a class of students - many twice her age - without a day's...
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:57:46 GMT</pubDate>
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		The elegant universe of Albert Einstein : the collected lectures of the Royal Society of New Zealand E=mcÂ˛ series, broadcast on - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21702810</link>
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		(Science - General science, astronomy, chemistry, etc... / Non-Fiction): 
			This exciting collection of essays on the big ideas in science was launched at the City Gallery cinema in Wellington on April 19. An enthusiastic audience heard a panel of authors, chaired by Kim Hill, deliver many thought-provoking ideas, from Matt Visser's pronouncement that eventually our universe will die (but fortunately not for thousands of millions of years) to Paul Callaghan's intriguing stories about brilliant New Zealand scientist, splitter of the atom, Ernest Rutherford, a contemporary of Albert...
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:57:45 GMT</pubDate>
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		NCEA level 1 science : questions &amp; answers - R Mathews		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21918302</link>
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		(Science - General science, astronomy, chemistry, etc... / Non-Fiction): 
			Questions &amp; answers featuring all the types of questions that can be asked in NCEA, detailed lists of learning objectives, specialised vocabulary, practise questions with answers, sample NCEA-type assessments--Back cover....
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:57:44 GMT</pubDate>
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		Theta mathematics : NCEA level 2 - David Barton		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b2188965x</link>
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		(Mathematics, Statistics / Non-Fiction): 
			Theta Mathematics (NCEA level 2) provide you with full coverage of the NCEA Mathematics level 2 achievement standards....
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:57:44 GMT</pubDate>
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		The gremlins of grammar : a guide to conquering the mischievous myths that plague American English - Toni Boyle		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21466804</link>
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		(Language and literature in English, linguistics, learning English / Non-Fiction): 
			Do you dare to split infinitives? Do you tremble at the thought of ending sentences with a preposition? Or are you totally clueless when it comes to making sense of syntax? Whether you're an aspiring wordsmith or an avowed grammar geek, you'll get a kick out of this witty instructional book that takes the bite out of American English. Written by two gurus of grammar, this primer takes you on an irreverent adventure through the language. Keeping it simple, the authors cut out fussy grammarspeak to give you t...
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:57:43 GMT</pubDate>
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		Oxford dictionary of rhymes. - N/A		]]>
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		<link>http://www.shorelibraries.govt.nz/TopPicks/NewReleases/book-review.php?dbcn=b21736224</link>
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		(Language and literature in English, linguistics, learning English / Non-Fiction): 
			From writing poems to writing birthday cards, and from the garret to the classroom, the Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes has what every writer (or budding writer) needs. It contains 45,000 words, including proper n